Old Bexley and Sidcup (UK Parliament constituency)

Old Bexley and Sidcup
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Old Bexley and Sidcup in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	65,161 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	James Brokenshire (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Bexleyheath (part) and Sidcup
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Old Bexley and Sidcup is a constituency created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by James Brokenshire, a Conservative.

The seat was created in 1983 by combining a small part of the abolished seat of Bexleyheath, chiefly Old Bexley, with the abolished seat of Sidcup.

On 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party withdrew the whip from the MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds revealed by the MPs expenses controversy, who declined to resign as MP and became an Independent. He retired from national politics in 2010.

Sir Edward Heath, (prime minister of the United Kingdom 1970-1974), held this area (also referring to its main predecessor seat, Sidcup) from 1950 until 2001 when he retired at the age of 85, at the time the oldest MP in the Commons.

The seat has been won at general elections since creation by the Conservative Party candidate. The 1997 New Labour Landslide saw the party's majority fall to its lowest level of 7% of the vote. Its greatest level has to date been 41.5% of the vote — in 1987.

In 2010 the seat was won by the Conservative James Brokenshire, who had transferred to this seat and approved by his local party when his former seat of Hornchurch was abolished in boundary changes. His 2015 result made the seat the 105th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.